Intro
Bm A D F#m Bm A D F#m E
[Verse 1]
Bm F#m A Bm E A
Aw it's dark outside
Bm F#m Bm A D E
I've been trying to get a ride
E Bm A Bm
While my bo - dy waits
A E
My body waits
[Chorus]
D Bm
America
A D
Warm my face
Bm A D
I've been trying to turn the page
[Verse 2]
Bm A F#m
Once I was a little boy
Bm E A
Staring at my shoes
Bm F#m
You came along and found
D Bm D E
Me in the chicken coop
[Interlude]
D
But time takes over
Bm
I can't say when
D
Time takes over
E
May we do it again
[Bridge]
A Bm
Take me to the beachhead let's go over
Bm
All of those rocks
E
At the end of the road
A
Take me down to main
Bm
Street with no clothes on
F#m
With our bare feet on the
D A
Painted yellow lines with
Bm F#m
Our shadows far behind us
D A
Broke into that summer school
Bm E
And fooled around on the infirmary cot
D A
And we can be like all those fairies
Bm F#m
Making their rain angels in the eddies
D A
And I have no expectation
Bm D F#m Bm D F#m
Just an adolescent heart
[Verse 3]
E F#m Bm E Bm
Aw it's dark outside
F#m Bm D
I've been trying to get a ride
Bm
While my body waits
A E
My body waits
[Chorus]
D Bm F#m
America
D
Warm my face
Bm F#m D
I've been trying to turn the page
[Verse 4]
Bm A F#m Bm
Once I was a little boy
D E Bm
Staring at my shoes
A
You came along and found
D Bm
Me in the chicken coop
[Interlude]
D
But time takes over
Bm
I can't say when
D
Time takes over
E
May we do it again
[Bridge]
A Bm
Take me to the beachhead let's go over
Bm
All of those rocks
E
At the end of the road
E
Help me down the
A Bm
Seawall let's find Marci
F#m
See if she got that
D A
Invitation to the movie
A
The one where the
Bm F#m
Kids break out of juvie
D A
And then by their own admission
Bm E
They go and turn themselves all in
D A
Just as they get there to the station
Bm
The young one wheels
F#m
And begs the pavement
D A
For brother speed to make arrangements
B E
With the spirits of the night
[Verse 5]
A
Take me to the race
Bm
Track let's go bet on
D
Aw the one that no
D E
One expects to win now
A
Let's bet on the skinny horse
Bm
He will surely try the
F#m
Hardest to come in first
D A
I bet you for the winner
Bm F#m
They put on some kind of fancy dinner
D A
Let's be like those Philadelphia sisters
Bm
That have prayed straight
E
For a hundred years
[Tag]
D A
I have no expectation
Bm F#m
Just to be here in the present
D A
And behold you for a second
Bm E
Before it all goes away
[Interlude]
F#m
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
D
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
F#m
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
Bm E
Before it all goes away
F#m
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
D
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
F#m Bm E
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah------
[Outro]
F#m
And those painted yellow lines
D
With our shadows far behind
F#m
Broke into that summer school
Bm E
And fooled around on the infirmary cot
F#m
And we can be like all those fairies
D
Making their rain angels in the eddies
F#m
And I have no expectation
Bm E
Just an adolescent heart